Improvement in traveling-trunks



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL IV. PI-IELPS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELlNG-TRUNKS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 16,125, dated November25, 1856.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. PHELPs, of Cincinnati, I-Iamilton county,Ohio, have invented new an d useful Improvements in Traveling-Trunks;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makingpart of this speciiication.

My invention has for its objects greater accessibility to and morecompact and convenient storage of the contents of a traveling trunk orvalise than is practicable with the ordinary article.

Travelers are well aware of the frequentlyrecurringinconvenience ofrummaging for an article buried among a mass ot' garments, books, the.,and this inconvenience is especially felt when access is wanted duringthe im mediate hurry of travel. These facts being presumed admitted, Iwill proceed to describe the devices by which, while possessing morethan all the security and adaptation to travcling of the trunk, I enableeach article to be orderly packed in its appropriate place and yet beaccessible at a moments requirement.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a trunkformed on my plan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a drawer.

The trunk, unlike those commonly in use, opens at. the side by a pair ofside lids or doors ab, which may each be provided, as

represented, with a distinct lock Whose bolt c engages in a suitablerecess d in a horizontal partition e. This partition is supported by andmade fast to the trunk ends. The spaces above and below the partitions eare further subdivided by horizontal partitions fg. Three of the fourcompartments thus formed are .fitted with drawers h tj, the remainingcompartment lo being left open for the storage of shoes, soiled linen,dac. The square space p between the vertical partition l and theadjacent trunk end is intended for the protection of a hat or bonnet andwill dispense altogether with the necessity of a separate receptacle forsuch articles.

m is a cover tting loosely the drawer, and which, being fastened down bya strap n and buckle o, serves to hold the contents properly to theirplaces, whether the drawers be full or partly empty.

I claim as new and of my invention- The arrangement, substantially asdescribed, of drawers, partitions, and side lids or doors for thecombined purposes of security, orderly arrangement, and accessibility ofall the contents in a traveling-trunk, as above set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand before two subscribingwitnesses.

SAML. IV. PHELPS.

Witnesses:

Trios. W. SCOTT, H. GRIDLEY.

